Coffee rust is a major disease of coffee and is highly damaging. Coffee plants affected by coffee rust can greatly reduce coffee production, and coffee rust can even cause the death of the coffee tree in severe cases. Coffee rust mainly affects the leaves, but sometimes also the young fruits and young leaves. The disease will affect the leaves, with many small light-yellow spots appearing at first, then a watery expansion, showing orange-yellow powdery spore mounds beneath, and a light green halo surrounding the spots as the spots expand or become irregular. Finally, the spots will dry and turn dark brown, and the affected leaves will drop off as a result.

In addition to conventional cultivation management and chemical control through pesticide spraying, coffee diseases can also be controlled at the biotechnological level. Lifeasible uses advanced biotechnology to continuously strengthen the resistance of coffee trees to disease by breeding rust-resistant coffee varieties. We play an important role in effectively reducing the impact of coffee rust disease on the growth and development of coffee trees. In addition, we help cultivators realize significant economic benefits.

The danger of coffee rust disease and the significance of control

Coffee rust is a major disease of small-grain coffee, and severe rust can cause coffee trees to lose up to half of their leaves and fruits, causing serious economic losses. Controlling the coffee rust disease effectively is extremely important for the promotion of sustainable development in the coffee industry and the improvement of its economic benefits.

Coffee rust control methods

Currently, the main measures to control coffee rust are chemical control, agricultural control, planting disease-resistant varieties for control, and biological control. For the control of coffee rust, we focus on breeding disease-resistant varieties.

• Breeding of rust-resistant coffee varieties

Our resistance breeding for coffee rust control has been used with great success in coffee rust control. Our technology has proven to be more economical and sustainable for the research and application of coffee rust control. Based on genomic knowledge, molecular markers of gene structure and function, and the use of genetic engineering-related technologies, we have been mining coffee for resistance genes that can control coffee rust, introducing them into coffee breeding research, and effectively breeding a variety of rust-resistant coffee varieties. At the same time, we have produced many coffee varieties with resistance to coffee rust and other excellent quality traits using somatic cell embryogenesis technology. In addition, we have continued to research other important varieties for in vitro reconstruction programs, such as using tissue culture.

Our service advantages

In coffee rust prevention and control, reducing chemical synthesis or pesticides can reduce environmental pollution and effectively fill the gap in organic coffee production. The use of biotechnology can shorten the breeding process and be successfully applied to coffee rust resistance research in coffee.

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